A woman recovers from the disease thanks to a new treatment

She became the third person and the first woman in the world to be cured of AIDS. As American scientists announced Tuesday at a conference in Denver, this patient treated in New York would have benefited from a new method of transplanting stem cells from umbilical cord blood, reports The New York Times.

Other patients should benefit from this procedure

According to information from Point, this woman had learned in 2013 that she was a victim of AIDS. Four years later, doctors diagnosed him with leukemia. Transplanted with stem cells from a donor carrying a genetic mutation blocking the entry of the AIDS virus, the patient in remission from her leukemia stopped taking her antiretroviral treatments against HIV, 37 months later.

His blood tests revealed no trace of the virus just over a year after his treatment was suspended, says The New York Times. According to information from the American media, around fifty patients treated in the United States could benefit from this procedure each year.